11th hour, 11th day, 11th month
Armistice Day, the hour, day and month set by the general commands of the belligerent states for the cessation of offensive operations, after the abandonment of the policy of political gain by military operations by the governments of the belligerent states.
It is not endorse-political-gain-by-military-operations day, its the reverse. It is not veterans day, it is the day of no more veterans. The first day of 1918 when boys turning 17 were not called up for training, the first day of 1918 when boys 17 and a few months older were not sent to the trenches.
Today is Armistice Day. The hour, day, month that the Great War in Europe ended. The day of the putting down of guns. The day thousands of Indians, painted in clay, climbed up out of the trenches and embrassed the ksisisttsomo'koan soldiers, the pointed hats, saying "Brother, it is good to see you live."
The Armistice of November, 1918 was more than a day of general officers at a rail car in the in Compiègne Forest, it was the end of refusals of progressively larger bodies of men to continue bad tactical operations driven by bad strategic goals in the pursuit of what were fundamentally dynastic disputes between the Hohenzollern, Romanov, Habsburg, Windsor, Savoy, and the 3rd Republic over the division of enslaved Africa, Asia, the Americas, and of course, Europe. It was also the mid-point of economic collapses caused by the cost of each regime's dependency upon militarism as the means of retaining power, and revolutions that ended the Hohenzollern, Romanov, Habsburg, and Savoy dynasties.
November 11th is not celebrated as "Hail the Windsors Day" in England and the Colonies. But it is marketed as "Veteran's Day", in a carefully mis-remembered past in which the survivors of the 1914-1918 conflict, and the dead, were, and are, without any reluctance to follow, any disloyalty to, the madness and barbarism they experienced. The mutinies, the punitive executions, and finally the Soldiers Revolts on the fronts, and the disturbances, riots, and finally the revolutions in the cities, are disassociated from the ongoing cult of the docile veteran.
There would not be an Armistice Day, no general armistice would have taken place, if the soldiers had simply followed orders, if the civilians had simply followed laws. Armistice Day exists because entire units, draftees, ranks, and junior officers refused to follow orders that achieved no purpose but their destruction, and entire urban populations refused to follow laws that achieved no purpose but their impovrishment.
Fundamentally, Armistice Day is about the end of autocracy, the end of Europe's collective "Old Regime", it is about the people limiting the powers of the princes.
Change, not the semblance of change.
The most striking change at ICANN-36 in Seoul last week was not that IDN ccTLDs were approved, nor that new gTLDs were delayed even more than at any time in the past two years, it was that the ICANN Board (voting members) now contains only one woman, who is unlikely to attend any meetings in the proximal future after a profoundly unfortunate personal injury, and only two women as non-voting liaisons.
We can't know if the choice of chromosomes engenders other consequences, but executive team choices to pursue high risk outcomes, yielding, in one year, the fundamental change of ICANN's relationship to the USG, the introduction of IDNs, tremendously marred by only one XX staffer having any day-to-day responsibility for the issue, also now unlikely to attend any meetings in the proximal future after a profoundly unfortunate personal condition, for what we manage to avoid describing as the nuclear armed, non-NATO states, and the OPEC states (less Canada, which has no interest in promoting Northern Syllabary as a script), the cache-poisoning forced DNSSEC deployment, and IPv4 address exhaustion, and an all-at-once application process for new gTLDs, in any script, resulting in hundreds, or more, simultaneous evaluations, challenges, objections, and a complete meltdown of the registry-registrar separation rules ...